Jeremiah 43:8-10

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in Tah′panhes: ⁹ “Take in your hands large stones, and hide them in the mortar in the pavement which is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace in Tah′panhes, in the sight of the men of Judah, ¹⁰ and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrez′zar the king of Babylon, my servant, and he^[a] will set his throne above these stones which I have hid, and he will spread his royal canopy over them.